The Art of Concentration: Enhance focus, reduce stress and achieve more

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Pan Macmillan, Nov 30, 2010 - Self-Help - 256 pages

We are all overwhelmed with technological input in our daily lives – whether it is our mobile phone ringing, our Blackberry bleeping or emails that pour in endlessly – we are all becoming hyperstimulated and unable to switch on (concentrate) or switch off (relax) because we’re all on permanent standby. As a result, we have lost the art of concentrating properly.

Luckily, this cutting edge personal development book is here to help readers navigate their way through the deluge and provides the tools we need to learn how to concentrate and focus. Rooted in scientific fact and research, it includes a detailed look at how your brain works, what inhibits brain function and concentration and covers things such as lack of down-time, distraction, poor lifestyle habits and stress. Featuring techniques and exercises to help improve concentration, it is guaranteed to help us all improve the way we work and the way we live our lives.

 

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Contents

Why concentration matters
1
What inhibits brain function and concentration?
31
What else is stopping you?
62
Your concentration profile
82
What do you need to help you concentrate?
101
Learning to concentrate
118
Pay attention Children and concentration
136
Techniques to improve your concentration
178
What else can you do?
212
Bibliography
232
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The Art of Concentration
Harriet Griffey
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Harriet Griffey
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About the author (2010)

Harriet Griffey is a freelance writer, print and broadcast journalist, who writes regularly for UK national newspapers and magazines. She originally trained as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital, London, but has subsequently worked in book publishing, television production, print and broadcast journalism. She is also an accredited coach, working with young people with the charity Youth at Risk. The Art of Concentration is her 14th published book.

www.theartofconcentration.co.uk

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Art of Concentration: Enhance focus, reduce stress and achieve more
AuthorHarriet Griffey
PublisherPan Macmillan, 2010
ISBN1905744900, 9781905744909
Length256 pages
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Self-Help / Personal Growth / Memory Improvement
Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success
  
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